Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. hours per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1 hours) allocated to preventive care. hours) allocated to preventive care.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Active surveillance is a management strategy that is intended to limit overtreatment of localized prostate cancer by monitoring patients with periodic PSA measurements and prostate biopsies to delay or avoid curative therapy (radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy) and its adverse effects. and 6.1%, respectively). in 2000 to 59.8%

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Noreta Family Medicine

JUNE 25, 2024

For instance, in May, I prescribed a diabetic medicine for a patient. The patient was unable to pick up the medicine due to the cost (about $1800), so I prescribed the other diabetic medicine in the same class. The cost was also above $1000 so the patient left the pharmacy empty handed. My patients have a say in their care.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 12, 2025

Not only is it difficult to clinically predict osteoporosis risk, fragility fractures can occur in patients without osteoporosis. being perfect and 0.5 being no better than chance.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Therefore, family physicians are trained to do minor surgical procedures in the office, care for kids and adults, provide various GYN services, among many other comprehensive services for patients. I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

Interventions included patient navigation, outreach calls, and decision aids; control groups received usual care or informational materials. A subgroup analysis suggested that multistep interventions targeting multiple barriers may be more effective than single-step ones. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A JAMA review article quotes a 2020 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guideline as recommending surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for patients younger than 65 years, TAVI for patients 80 years or older, and either procedure in patients 65 to 79 years, depending on operative risk and comorbidities.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 11, 2025

Psychology Today maintains a national directory of therapists with training in CBT for gambling disorder. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog. A recent article in the BMJ summarized a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on identification and management of gambling-related harms.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. The ad states that patients may pay as little as $5 per dose, 4 times per year.… Who could blame a patient for believing the drug doesn’t cost much.

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